Project: Cornwall Works

Cornwall Works provides a strategy and an over-arching brand for the delivery of all welfare to work activity - both mainstream and ESF Convergence funded - in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.





Project feature

Cornwall Works came about through Cornwall's Local Area Agreement, acknowledging the good track record of delivery and partnership working, but recognising that in order to have a sustained impact on the difficult and complex aspects of worklessness - including the inter-relationships with health, housing, crime, education, child poverty, child education - we needed to take partnership working to a new level. Cornwall Works is not a project, but brings together initiatives, partners and organisations to ensure that there is appropriate support in the right place, at the right time for all mutual customers. The aim is to change the behaviours and ways in which organisations work together to achieve this single goal in a way that will outlast any single funding initiative. Cornwall Works also provides a single point of entry for individuals and organisations supporting workless people, or indeed anyone who is workless themselves. Access includes a single telephone number and web site backed by staff who will identify the most appropriate source of support, according to the individuals needs and barriers, and they will facilitate this referral.


Contact details

Contact name not available
Cornwall Works
Lemon Quay House, Lemon Quay, Truro, TR1 2PU




Key project message

The development of Cornwall Works has been led by Jobcentre Plus on behalf of the Cornwall Strategic Partnership, and set within the scope of Inclusion Cornwall one of the thematic partnerships of the CSP. The outcome lead is Carolyn Webster, Cornwall European Programmes Manager, Jobcentre Plus (e-mail).




Project impact

The positive impact of Cornwall Works has improved employment rates, including for those who were on long-term incapacity benefit. Cornwall Works was highlighted as an example of good practice in the coordination of activity in 'Rural Money Matters: A support guide to rural financial inclusion' by the Commission for Rural Communities (June 2009).




Key data

  • Region: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
  • Sub-regions: Cornwall
  • Objective: Convergence
  • Priority area: 4: Tackling barriers to employment
  • Themes:
    • Not applicable
  • Co-financer: Department for Work and Pensions
  • Lead partner: Cornwall Works
  • Partner organisations: Cornwall Works
  • Key sectors:
    • Information technology and telecommunications
  • Activities:
    • More innovative and productive ways of working
  • Key target groups:
    • Pathways
  • Funding: Ongoing
  • Start date: launched October 2006
  • End date: ESF Convergence - all DWP/JCP ESF Co-financing is developed within the Cornwall Works strategy
  • Project web site: http://www.cornwallworks.org.uk